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Images of New MacBook Pro With Magic Toolbar Leaked in macOS Sierra 10.12.1
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Done! No event tomorrow!
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Well, it looks exactly like the MB's keyboard...it's not a far fetch to assume it's the same
You've conducted a survey?
I remember all the complaints and whining when the previous generation keyboard was introduced.
Not to alarm anyone, but the keyboard letter type buttons in the middle are definitely lighter like the touch bar, and the standard shift, command, etc keys around the edges are darker like the Touch ID button. Could the rumor about displays built into individual keys actually be true? Is this why Apple has worked towards making them so slim and flat? The way the gradient on them matches the touch bar but not the return key or any other side buttons is odd, and seems to match up with what that other company recently did with E-Ink. Seems like a strange detail!
EDIT: Nope, not gonna happen. I shouldn't have been comparing the new keyboard to the old keyboard, but the new keyboard to the new keyboard on the MacBook. The MacBook design looks almost exactly the same when you change the levels, aside from the obvious TouchBar/MagicBar/whatever. Must be the way the keys are shaped/indented as they reflect light differently.
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Who are you trying to convince by blogging this? Us or yourself? Sounds like you're trying to mentally rationalize away how outdated you feel now.
I don't remember reading even once that people didn't get used to those keyboards even after months of usage... while you actually do read that a lot with the new butterfly keyboard
YES! YES! Can we get it in different colors? I'd love a matte black version of it.
Seriously. I'm on vim hours every day. I could map caps lock to ESC, but I already use that as my CTRL key, so that's not a good option.
This situation is pretty depressing. I could adapt to living without the function keys — despite the macros I've assigned to several of them — but the ESC key might be the last straw. After ten years of OS X, I may have to switch back to linux. Time to go browse the ugly laptops for sale at System76, I guess.
It's a visual toolbar! They could make dancing women appear if they wanted to. It'll be fine.
Yep, I have a SATA-3 SSD in the slot while the slot itself only supports SATA-2 so i'm bottlenecked there too.. Stuck at 8 GB ram.
Cannot wait to get rid of it.
Escape key is my only concern since I use it on a daily basis.
Another question I'd have is function key usage on Bootcamp and VMs.
Another question I'd have is function key usage on Bootcamp and VMs.
Not long before Steve Jobs’ second coming to Apple in 1996 he was giving a talk to The Stanford Graduate School of Business’ High Tech Club at the home of a student. For three hours he sat in the lotus position on the floor in front of the living-room fireplace answering questions good-naturedly. Afterwards, the host, a young MBA candidate named Steve Jurvetson, asked the legendary figure to autograph his Macintosh keyboard which had already been signed by Apple cofounder Steve Woznyak.
Steve Jobs said he’d do it, but only if first he could remove all the unnecessary keys that his successors had added in a foolish effort to make the Mac more like a Microsoft-Intel PC. He despised the long row of so-called function keys (like “F1”) and the cluster of navigational arrow keys which were clunky alternatives to the more intuitive process of using a mouse to explore menus and icons. So Jobs pulled his car keys out of his pocket and began scooping into the computer keyboard, violently disgorging all the keys that offended him. “I’m changing the world one keyboard at a time”, he said with a straight face. Only then when he had mutilated the apparatus, did he take a pen and scribble his autograph on it. He was making a statement: he still had an intensely proprietary feeling about Apple’s computers and he yearned to restore the company in accordance to his vision.
Alan Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, 2001
Steve Jobs said he’d do it, but only if first he could remove all the unnecessary keys that his successors had added in a foolish effort to make the Mac more like a Microsoft-Intel PC. He despised the long row of so-called function keys (like “F1”) and the cluster of navigational arrow keys which were clunky alternatives to the more intuitive process of using a mouse to explore menus and icons. So Jobs pulled his car keys out of his pocket and began scooping into the computer keyboard, violently disgorging all the keys that offended him. “I’m changing the world one keyboard at a time”, he said with a straight face. Only then when he had mutilated the apparatus, did he take a pen and scribble his autograph on it. He was making a statement: he still had an intensely proprietary feeling about Apple’s computers and he yearned to restore the company in accordance to his vision.
Alan Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, 2001
I love the new keyboard. It takes all of five minutes to get used too... If that.
Haters who hate on innovation.
Go get you one of these...
Haters who hate on innovation.
Go get you one of these...
The event is Thursday.
why not use the right hand instead of an award non-ergonomic arm gesture. lol.
we'll see how they implement this, interested but not entirely sold on it
we'll see how they implement this, interested but not entirely sold on it